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Katori Hall

KATORI HALL

  
Nationality:    African American
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  

Harvard grad. an actress and playwright

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         Awake         Beyonce Effect, The         Boogie Dreams         Children Of Killers         Diaspora         Fire This Time Festival, The         Freedom Train         Hoodoo Love         Hurt Village         Miscegenation Of Miss Emma Brown         Mountaintop, The         On the Chitlin' Circuit         Oreogirl         Our Lady of Kibeho         Remembrance         Whatabloodclot!!!
Awake

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Beyonce Effect, The

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An Afro-American, an Indian and an Ugandan all wish they had lighter skin and white European features

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Fire This Time Festival, New York     2010

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Boogie Dreams

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Children Of Killers

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the president of Rwanda is releasing the killers. Years after the Tutsi genocide, the perpetrators begin to trickle back into the countryside to be reunited with their villages. a trio of friends, born during the genocide's bloody aftermath, prepare to meet the men who gave them life. But as the homecoming day draws closer the young men are haunted by the sins of their fathers. Who can you become when violence is your inheritance?

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part of the National theatre Connections 2011

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Dukes Young actor

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   

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Diaspora

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Fire This Time Festival, The

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amid the diffusion of the term "post black black," in American society And Art, seven up-and-coming playwrights of African descent including Deborah Asiimwe, Radha Blank, Kelley Girod, Katori Hall, Derek Lee McPhatter, Germono Toussaint, And Pia Wilson have come together to Answer these questions. the Fire This Time Festival showcases new short plays As A special Black History Month offering At the Horse Trade theater. the Festival explores the diverse possibilities of contemporary American Drama And challenging new directions for 21st century black theatre.
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the Red Room, NY, USA >>>     04 Feb 2010

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Horse Trade Theatre Group

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short play

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Freedom Train

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Hoodoo Love

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In a Southern tale of love, magic, jealousy and secrets, Toulou escapes from the Mississippi Delta cotton fields, to pursue her dream of singing the blues in Memphis. When she meets a rambling blues man, the notorious ace of Spades, this dream is realized in a way she could never have imagined.

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Dramatists Play Service Inc, NY   

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Hurt Village

Hurt Village
It's the end of a long summer in Hurt Village, a housing project in Memphis, Tennessee. a government Hope Grant means relocation for many of the project's residents, including Cookie, a thirteen year-old aspiring rapper, along with her mother Crank and great-grandmother Big Mama. as the family prepares to move, Cookie's Father Buggy unexpectedly returns from a tour of duty in Iraq. Ravaged by the war, Buggy struggles to find a position in his disintegrating community, along with a place in his daughter's wounded heart.
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1st Produced:
Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street, NY     27 Feb 2012

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Signature Theatre Company

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in the Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays   

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Miscegenation Of Miss Emma Brown

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Mountaintop, The

Mountaintop, The
the night before his assassination Martin Luther King retires to room 306 in the Lorraine Motel after giving a speech to a Memphis church congregation during the sanitation workers' strike. When a mysterious young motel maid visits him, King is forced to confront his past and the future of his people. David Harewood plays King in a hauntingly inspiring portrait that looks beyond the legend to a man wracked by fears for the civil rights movement that will be his historic legacy.

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. Developed during Lark Play Development Center Barebones workshop in New York City on April 29, 2009. Transferred to Trafalgar Studio 1, West end, London - 2009

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Methuen Drama, London   

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On the Chitlin' Circuit

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Oreogirl

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Our Lady of Kibeho

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Based on real events, OUR LADY OF KIBEHO is an exploration of faith, doubt, and the power and consequences of both. In 1981, a village girl in Rwanda claims to see the Virgin Mary. Ostracized by her schoolmates and labeled disturbed, everyone refuses to believe, until impossible happenings appear again and again. Skepticism gives way to fear, and then to belief, causing upheaval in the school community and beyond.

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Signature Theatre, NY     28 Oct 2014

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   

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Remembrance

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part of Women's Project presents Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$: six new works About women And wealthPerformances take place throughout the complex And the Audience will move from space to space. Women's Project, taking its theme from A Venue that has "world financial" in its name, presents six new, short, site-specific works About the relationships between women And wealth (or lack thereof) in Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$.

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World Financial Center, NY     2007

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Women's Project

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Whatabloodclot!!!

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Snobbish white woman eden Higginbotham suffers a stroke. After it she is found to have Foreign Accent Syndrome. She now speaks with a West Indian accent

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Williamstown Theatre Festival     08 Aug 2012

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